New York Magazine Pundit: Tea Party Was Trumpian, Not Conservative

May 25th, 2016 10:55 AM
New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait has contempt for both Donald Trump (“his appeal operates…at a sub-intellectual level”) and those who’ve voted for him (“the Republican Party turns out to be filled with idiots”). Still, suggested Chait in a Thursday post, Trump and his supporters have unwittingly clarified something important: the Tea Party movement is not and never was truly conservative,…
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NewsBusted: Bernie Voters Probably Can't Pick Out This Place on a Map!

May 24th, 2016 9:00 PM
“Bernie Sanders easily won the Oregon primary last week. Exit polls revealed that most of his voters have never heard of Venezuela.” - NewsBusted’s Jody Miller

CNN's Bourdain In Vietnam: Obama's 'Chopstick Skills Are On Point'

May 23rd, 2016 6:24 PM
CNN recently admitted that it's "no longer a TV news network," but that apparently isn't going to stop the network from setting aside some of its non-news air time to President Obama. Chef Anthony Bourdain sat down with the Democrat in a restaurant in Hanoi on Monday, and shot footage for an upcoming episode of his Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown program on the cable channel. Bourdain posted a…
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‘60 Minutes’ Waits Until Final Year to Bring Heat on Valerie Jarrett

May 23rd, 2016 4:26 PM
After next to nothing in the first seven years of the Obama administration, the major broadcast networks finally decided to profile Obama family friend and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett as CBS’s 60 Minutes featured a tough interview conducted by CBS This Morning co-host Norah O’Donnell. 
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NBC Skips ‘Communist’ Label, Horrid Human Rights Record for Vietnam

May 23rd, 2016 1:12 PM
On Monday morning, NBC’s Today and correspondent Ron Allen omitted any mention to viewers that Vietnam remains a authoritarian, communist regime as it welcomed President Barack Obama on the first stop of his week-long Asia tour. 

AP Story Waits 17 Paragraphs to ID Little Sisters in HHS Mandate Case

May 22nd, 2016 11:07 PM
On Tuesday at TheFederalist.com, 2015 Noel Sheppard Blogger of the Year recipient Mollie Hemingway pointed to several outrageous examples of poor press coverage of the Supreme Court's unanimous move to send Obamacare's HHS contraception mandate case back to the lower courts. Hemingway's core observation was that usually plaintiff-sympathetic establishment press outlets "suddenly have trouble…

Ex-Conservative to Hillary-Haters: ‘Get Over It’ and Vote For Her

May 22nd, 2016 6:25 PM
Damon Linker, a self-described former “conservative intellectual” (he was an editor at First Things) believes that Hillary Clinton’s policy positions are “good enough” to earn the votes of current conservatives, given that a Donald Trump administration would pose a “national threat” and that most right-wing Hillary-hatred “lack[s] any rational connection to reality.” Take Hillary’s scandals --…
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AP's '2-for-1' Hillary and Bill Story Revises Political History

May 19th, 2016 12:18 PM
Three offensive elements pervaded the Associated Press's Monday coverage of Hillary Clinton's statement that she will put her husband "in charge of revitalizing the economy." The first was how AP reporters Lisa Lerer and Catherin Lucey decided to resurrect the infamous "2-for-1 offer" then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton campaigned on in 1992 — an especially weak move, given its real-world…
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2012 Bill Clinton Prediction: We'd Feel Good About the Economy by Now

May 19th, 2016 7:11 AM
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton believes we're supposed to be impressed by the idea of putting her husband Bill, in the Associated Press's words, "in charge of revitalizing the economy." Yep, the old "2-for-1" offer from the early 1990s is back. In 1993, President Bill put First Lady Hill in charge of health care. Fortunately, nothing tangible resulted, but we did get an…
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Media Ignoring a MAJOR Part of the Facebook Scandal

May 18th, 2016 2:08 PM
The liberal media are all over one part of the Facebook scandal story - and ignoring another. Generally, media have covered the accusations that the social media site is censoring conservative news and sources from their trending news feed. Coincidentally, this is also the part of the Facebook story affecting the media.

ESPN’s Race, Culture Site Features Obama in Twitter Header

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May 17th, 2016 6:28 PM
Apparently maintaining the pretense of objectivity and neutrality has just grown entirely too tiresome.

Resisting Obama's Transgender Directive: A Hill to Die On

May 17th, 2016 5:25 PM
To achieve its political ends, the left doesn't just assault the Constitution through the appointment of liberal activist judges; there are a variety of other leftist abuses, such as politicizing the departments of Justice and Education.
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BuzzFeed to Obama: Too Many ‘Straight White Men’ on Supreme Court

May 17th, 2016 4:09 PM
In an interview streamed on YouTube and Facebook Live on Monday, Buzzfeed News legal editor Chris Geidner grilled President Obama over his nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court: “...a large part of your legacy on judicial nominations has been diversifying the federal bench....You had an opportunity with this nomination to, for the first time in the nation’s history, if the justice…
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Todd: Obama Will Be Hillary’s Campaign ‘Character Witness’

May 17th, 2016 11:41 AM
Appearing on Tuesday’s NBC Today, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd touted Hillary Clinton’s supposed best defense against attacks from Donald Trump in a general election: “I do think it raises the importance of Barack Obama as a surrogate for Hillary Clinton. I think you’re going to see over the summer that when she's looking for a character witness, she's not going to turn to Bill, she’s…